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Joan Guinovart, director of IRB Barcelona, answers the “Big Vang Questionnaire” of La Vanguardia newspaper. Guinovart responds with deftness to about thirty questions about his personal and professional life. Five minutes of reading that bring us closer to the figure of a scientist who “has been a tireless campaigner who has lobbied successive governments for the past three decades to get them to support research”, as described by the journalist Josep Corbella.
Read the interview in La Vanguardia (in Spanish)
About IRB Barcelona
The Institute for Research in Biomedicine (IRB Barcelona) pursues a society free of disease. To this end, it conducts multidisciplinary research of excellence to cure cancer and other diseases linked to ageing. It establishes technology transfer agreements with the pharmaceutical industry and major hospitals to bring research results closer to society, and organises a range of science outreach activities to engage the public in an open dialogue. IRB Barcelona is an international centre that hosts 400 researchers and more than 30 nationalities. Recognised as a Severo Ochoa Centre of Excellence since 2011, IRB Barcelona is a CERCA centre and member of the Barcelona Institute of Science and Technology (BIST).
